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May 1, 2012, 1:18 PM

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Converting a string to list for submission to easygui multenterbā€‹ox

Please help a newbe. I have a string returned from an esygui
multchoicebox that looks like
this: ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '') I need to convert this to
this: ['ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '']

This is so I can submit this to a multenterbox with 5 fields

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gordon at panix

May 1, 2012, 1:26 PM

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Re: Converting a string to list for submission to easygui multenterbā€‹ox [In reply to]

In <316efebe-7f54-4054-96b1-51c7bb7b7b25 [at] f5g2000vbt> ksals <kbsals5179 [at] gmail> writes:

> Please help a newbe. I have a string returned from an esygui
> multchoicebox that looks like
> this: ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '') I need to convert this to
> this: ['ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '']

That looks like a tuple which contains five strings. But you said it's
a string, so I'll believe you.

>>> x = "('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '')"
>>> print x
('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '')
>>> y = "[%s]" % x[1:-1]
>>> print y
['ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '']

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kroger at pedrokroger

May 1, 2012, 1:32 PM

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Re: Converting a string to list for submission to easygui multenterbā€‹ox [In reply to]

Have you tried to use the function list?:

foo = (1,2,3)
list(foo)

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On May 1, 2012, at 5:18 PM, ksals wrote:

> Please help a newbe. I have a string returned from an esygui
> multchoicebox that looks like
> this: ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '') I need to convert this to
> this: ['ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '']
>
> This is so I can submit this to a multenterbox with 5 fields
>
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kbsals5179 at gmail

May 1, 2012, 2:09 PM

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Re: Converting a string to list for submission to easygui multenterbā€‹ox [In reply to]

On May 1, 4:26 pm, John Gordon <gor...@panix.com> wrote:
> In <316efebe-7f54-4054-96b1-51c7bb7b7...@f5g2000vbt.googlegroups.com> ksals <kbsals5...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Please help a newbe. I have a string returned from an esygui
> > multchoicebox that looks like
> > this: ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '') I need to convert this to
> > this: ['ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '']
>
> That looks like a tuple which contains five strings. But you said it's
> a string, so I'll believe you.
>
> >>> x = "('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '')"
> >>> print x
>
> ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '')>>> y = "[%s]" % x[1:-1]
> >>> print y
>
> ['ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '']
>
> --
> John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs
> gor...@panix.com B is for Basil, assaulted by bears
> -- Edward Gorey, "The Gashlycrumb Tinies"
>
>

The original choice looks like this when I print it:

print(choice)
('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '')

I need to submit these as defaults to a multenterbox. Each entry above
ksals, "", "alsdkfj', 3 , '' need to fill the five fields in the box.
I tried your suggestion so you must be right it is a tuple of 5
strings. But I need them to work in an instruction like
fieldValues = eg.multenterbox(msg1,title, fieldNames, choice)
fieldNames has 5 fields.
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gordon at panix

May 1, 2012, 2:29 PM

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Re: Re: Converting a string to list for submission to easygui multenterbā€‹ox [In reply to]

In <3b5f65c4-cd95-4bb4-94f2-0c69cf2b1a80 [at] d20g2000vbh> ksals <kbsals5179 [at] gmail> writes:

> The original choice looks like this when I print it:

> print(choice)
> ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '')

> I need to submit these as defaults to a multenterbox. Each entry above
> ksals, "", "alsdkfj', 3 , '' need to fill the five fields in the box.
> I tried your suggestion so you must be right it is a tuple of 5
> strings. But I need them to work in an instruction like
> fieldValues =3D eg.multenterbox(msg1,title, fieldNames, choice)
> fieldNames has 5 fields.

If you just need to convert a tuple to a list, that's easy. Call the
built-in function list() and pass the tuple as an intializer:

>>> choice = ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '')
>>> print choice
('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '')
>>> choice_list = list(choice)
>>> print choice_list
['ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '']

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ramit.prasad at jpmorgan

May 1, 2012, 2:35 PM

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RE: Converting a string to list for submission to easygui multenterbā€‹ox [In reply to]

> > That looks like a tuple which contains five strings.

> The original choice looks like this when I print it:
>
> print(choice)
> ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '')

Based on the print statement, choice is a tuple or a string.
try doing `print(type(choice))`. On the assumption it is a
tuple and not a string you can convert it by doing:

choice = list(choice)

If it actually is a string I would do:
choice = list( ast.literal_eval( choice ) )

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May 1, 2012, 2:50 PM

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Re: Converting a string to list for submission to easygui multenterbā€‹ox [In reply to]

On May 1, 5:29 pm, John Gordon <gor...@panix.com> wrote:
> In <3b5f65c4-cd95-4bb4-94f2-0c69cf2b1...@d20g2000vbh.googlegroups.com> ksals <kbsals5...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > The original choice looks like this when I print it:
> > print(choice)
> > ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '')
> > I need to submit these as defaults to a multenterbox. Each entry above
> > ksals, "", "alsdkfj', 3 , '' need to fill the five fields in the box.
> > I tried your suggestion so you must be right it is a tuple of 5
> > strings. But I need them to work in an instruction like
> > fieldValues =3D eg.multenterbox(msg1,title, fieldNames, choice)
> > fieldNames has 5 fields.
>
> If you just need to convert a tuple to a list, that's easy. Call the
> built-in function list() and pass the tuple as an intializer:
>
> >>> choice = ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '')
> >>> print choice
>
> ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '')>>> choice_list = list(choice)
> >>> print choice_list
>
> ['ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '']
>
> --
> John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs
> gor...@panix.com B is for Basil, assaulted by bears
> -- Edward Gorey, "The Gashlycrumb Tinies"
>
>
This is a small excert to show you what I get

for choice in easygui.multchoicebox(msg1, title,qstack):
if choice[0] == None:
print ("No entries made")
break

print("CHOICE IS: ",choice) ..... CHOICE IS:
('', 'ksals', '', '', '')
c=list(choice)
print("C IS: ",c) ..... C IS: [.'(',
"'", "'", ',', ' ', "'", 'k', 's', 'a', 'l', 's', "'", ',', ' ', "'",
"'", ',', ' ', "'", "'", ',', ' ', "'", "'",
')']
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cs at zip

May 1, 2012, 4:29 PM

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Re: Converting a string to list for submission to easygui multenterbā€‹ox [In reply to]

Disclaimer: I have never used esygui.

On 01May2012 21:29, John Gordon <gordon [at] panix> wrote:
| In <3b5f65c4-cd95-4bb4-94f2-0c69cf2b1a80 [at] d20g2000vbh> ksals <kbsals5179 [at] gmail> writes:
| > The original choice looks like this when I print it:
|
| > print(choice)
| > ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '')

That's just print() printing a tuple.

| > I need to submit these as defaults to a multenterbox. Each entry above
| > ksals, "", "alsdkfj', 3 , '' need to fill the five fields in the box.
| > I tried your suggestion so you must be right it is a tuple of 5
| > strings. But I need them to work in an instruction like
| > fieldValues =3D eg.multenterbox(msg1,title, fieldNames, choice)
| > fieldNames has 5 fields.
|
| If you just need to convert a tuple to a list, that's easy. Call the
| built-in function list() and pass the tuple as an intializer:

Supposedly he should not need to. From:

http://www.ferg.org/easygui/tutorial.html#contents_item_10.2

the sentence: "The choices are specified in a sequence (a tuple or a
list)."

I do not believe that ksals needs to change anything.

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cs at zip

May 1, 2012, 4:36 PM

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Re: Converting a string to list for submission to easygui multenterbā€‹ox [In reply to]

The tutorial suggests multchoicebox returns an interable of chosen
items, in fact probably a seqeunce. So...

On 01May2012 14:50, ksals <kbsals5179 [at] gmail> wrote:
| This is a small excert to show you what I get
|
| for choice in easygui.multchoicebox(msg1, title,qstack):
| if choice[0] == None:
| print ("No entries made")
| break

This is the wrong test. "choice" is

| print("CHOICE IS: ",choice) ..... CHOICE IS:
| ('', 'ksals', '', '', '')

Does this really happen? This code associated with the for loop?

I'd expect easygui.multchoicebox to return a list (or tuple) and
"choice" to be a single string from the list. Did your print() call
happen after the quoted "for" loop or after a statement like this?

choice = easygui.multchoicebox(msg1, title, qstack)

| c=list(choice)
| print("C IS: ",c) ..... C IS: [.'(',
| "'", "'", ',', ' ', "'", 'k', 's', 'a', 'l', 's', "'", ',', ' ', "'",
| "'", ',', ' ', "'", "'", ',', ' ', "'", "'",
| ')']

Ok, that really does look like "choice" is a string. I'm really very
surprised.

What does this do?

choices = easygui.multchoicebox(msg1, title, qstack)
print("type(choices) =", type(choices))
print("choices =", repr(choices))

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laurent.pointal at free

May 2, 2012, 10:57 AM

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Re: Converting a string to list for submission to easygui multenterbā€‹ox [In reply to]

ksals wrote:

> On May 1, 5:29 pm, John Gordon <gor...@panix.com> wrote:
>> In <3b5f65c4-cd95-4bb4-94f2-0c69cf2b1...@d20g2000vbh.googlegroups.com>
>> ksals <kbsals5...@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > The original choice looks like this when I print it:
>> > print(choice)
>> > ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '')
>> > I need to submit these as defaults to a multenterbox. Each entry above
>> > ksals, "", "alsdkfj', 3 , '' need to fill the five fields in the box.
>> > I tried your suggestion so you must be right it is a tuple of 5
>> > strings. But I need them to work in an instruction like
>> > fieldValues =3D eg.multenterbox(msg1,title, fieldNames, choice)
>> > fieldNames has 5 fields.
>>
>> If you just need to convert a tuple to a list, that's easy. Call the
>> built-in function list() and pass the tuple as an intializer:
>>
>> >>> choice = ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '')
>> >>> print choice
>>
>> ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '')>>> choice_list = list(choice)
>> >>> print choice_list
>>
>> ['ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '']
>>
>> --
>> John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs
>> gor...@panix.com B is for Basil, assaulted by bears
>> -- Edward Gorey, "The Gashlycrumb Tinies"
>>
>>
> This is a small excert to show you what I get
>
> for choice in easygui.multchoicebox(msg1, title,qstack):
> if choice[0] == None:
> print ("No entries made")
> break
>
>
> print("CHOICE IS: ",choice) ..... CHOICE IS:
> ('', 'ksals', '', '', '')
> c=list(choice)
> print("C IS: ",c) ..... C IS: [.'(',
> "'", "'", ',', ' ', "'", 'k', 's', 'a', 'l', 's', "'", ',', ' ', "'",
> "'", ',', ' ', "'", "'", ',', ' ', "'", "'",
> ')']

Looks like you have your tuple expression
('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '')
not as a tuple, but as a string. Do you convert it somewhere ?

If you have it as a string, you can use eval() (not safe!) on the string to
retrieve the tuple, then list() on the tuple to get a list.

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kbsals5179 at gmail

May 2, 2012, 1:55 PM

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Re: Converting a string to list for submission to easygui multenterbā€‹ox [In reply to]

On May 2, 1:57 pm, Laurent Pointal <laurent.poin...@free.fr> wrote:
> ksals wrote:
> > On May 1, 5:29 pm, John Gordon <gor...@panix.com> wrote:
> >> In <3b5f65c4-cd95-4bb4-94f2-0c69cf2b1...@d20g2000vbh.googlegroups.com>
> >> ksals <kbsals5...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> > The original choice looks like this when I print it:
> >> > print(choice)
> >> > ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '')
> >> > I need to submit these as defaults to a multenterbox. Each entry above
> >> > ksals, "", "alsdkfj', 3 , '' need to fill the five fields in the box.
> >> > I tried your suggestion so you must be right it is a tuple of 5
> >> > strings. But I need them to work in an instruction like
> >> > fieldValues =3D eg.multenterbox(msg1,title, fieldNames, choice)
> >> > fieldNames has 5 fields.
>
> >> If you just need to convert a tuple to a list, that's easy. Call the
> >> built-in function list() and pass the tuple as an intializer:
>
> >> >>> choice = ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '')
> >> >>> print choice
>
> >> ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '')>>> choice_list = list(choice)
> >> >>> print choice_list
>
> >> ['ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '']
>
> >> --
> >> John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs
> >> gor...@panix.com B is for Basil, assaulted by bears
> >> -- Edward Gorey, "The Gashlycrumb Tinies"
>
> > This is a small excert to show you what I get
>
> > for choice in easygui.multchoicebox(msg1, title,qstack):
> > if choice[0] == None:
> > print ("No entries made")
> > break
>
> > print("CHOICE IS: ",choice) ..... CHOICE IS:
> > ('', 'ksals', '', '', '')
> > c=list(choice)
> > print("C IS: ",c) ..... C IS: [.'(',
> > "'", "'", ',', ' ', "'", 'k', 's', 'a', 'l', 's', "'", ',', ' ', "'",
> > "'", ',', ' ', "'", "'", ',', ' ', "'", "'",
> > ')']
>
> Looks like you have your tuple expression
> ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '')
> not as a tuple, but as a string. Do you convert it somewhere ?
>
> If you have it as a string, you can use eval() (not safe!) on the string to
> retrieve the tuple, then list() on the tuple to get a list.
>
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> 3 allée des Orangers - 91940 Les Ulis - France
> Tél. 01 69 29 06 59
>
>

Thank you and everyone that helped me. I did finally figure it out
this morning. I am now converting for my use. I just didn't understand
what I was looking at
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rosuav at gmail

May 2, 2012, 9:29 PM

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Re: Converting a string to list for submission to easygui multenterbā€‹ox [In reply to]

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:57 AM, Laurent Pointal <laurent.pointal [at] free> wrote:
> If you have it as a string, you can use eval() (not safe!) on the string to
> retrieve the tuple, then list() on the tuple to get a list.

Are you saying that eval is not safe (which it isn't), or that it has
to be eval() and not safe_eval() to do this job? There's also
ast.literal_eval which ought to be safe for this situation (I think).

ChrisA
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